Sunday, May 30, 2010

I fashioned this one out of "Mummy " ribbon and a girly skull brad, just so I could

participate in this week's Haunted Design House challenge: Beastly Butterflies.

Here is the rest of the card.

I just got this Goth girl image from Sugar Nellie, and couldn't wait to ink her up

and force her to comply with whatever random challenge I felt an itch to participate in.

She is really cute and I managed to finagle a butterfly-like thing, onto the project,

so that qualifies for the butterfly theme.

I also got to use my new MS iron fence corner punch.

I also have the edge punch that goes with it, but I need more practice getting everything to align properly.

I also added some Doodlebug sugar glitter to hide some bleeding from the black Copic. Actually, it was the colorless blender pen which is pretty juicy, and led to unwanted bleeding (I'm NOT going there).

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Here is my card for the latest challenge over at the Burtonesque Dolls.

The challenge was "Corpse Bride", and my immediate reaction was to pull this stamp out.

I bought this image a while back from Stamp it Crazy, and intended to use it for a friend's bridal shower. However, I opted against it because sometimes my sense of humor is not funny to the masses, or the insecure, or the easily offended.

Unfortunately, my friend's fiance (now husband), fits a few of those examples, so

I decided to make a 'nice' wedding card instead.

Boring.

But, the idea and the theme is perfect for the challenge!

I have had this Frankenstein stamp for ages and never seem to use it enough.

Plus, I decided to use as much of the creepy ribbon as I can before every card on these challenges has it on them!

I previously divulged my source for the ribbon, and when I went to order some last week, the company was completely OUT!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Don't forget this month's Hogs & Sketches challenge! You have until midnight on May 29 to submit your entry. Besides the normal prizes we award, this month all the eligible participants will win a special digital design, that won't be offered anywhere else. So are ya gonna play with us, or are ya chicken??

Friday, May 7, 2010

This card is for the fabulously gruesome, "Ode to the Bruise" Macabre Monday challenge at Haunted Design House,

and the first challenge from The Burtonesque Dolls, to use stripes.

Barb at HDH, challenged us to use 'bruise colors' like,

black, purple, yellow, and teal(?).

Done, done, and done!

I really wasn't feeling the teal until I happened upon this perfect shade of

putrification.

I shredded up the ends a bit to keep it creepy.

I used some striped vintage paper I found at a yard sale years ago. It came in a huge roll and I also got a roll of the most wickedly delicious red, flocked, whore house-type/boudoir, haunted mansion, wallpaper. Can't wait to use that!

Anyhoo, the striped paper is really old, but it is so cool and it also has a really neat texture to it.